Mazda MX-5 Miata Grand Touring: Road Trip Journal
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2021
- The Drive's Mike Spinelli takes a GoPro and reconnects with the Mazda MX-5, and other things, on a contemplative Southern California road trip up the coast.
It’s roughly 40 miles from the western fringe of Culver City to the roads that snake through the Santa Monica Mountains. These roads inspired generations of weekend racers and dynamics engineers to fine-tune their cars. They also match, in tone at least, those where Mazda’s R&D team first ran a well-disguised Miata prototype through the canyons further north in Santa Barbara back in 1985. Considering the Miata’s often-told backstory, it’s no stretch to say the little roadster wouldn’t have existed without Southern California’s geography to urge it on.
Full review at The Drive:
www.thedrive.com/new-cars/415... 
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Runaway bulk is the cancer of the automotive world.
Never heard that term but it makes a lot of sense.
@@drive 😂what do you think of the new miata tho guys?I mean, it is smaller and lighter than the nc, but it only has a 7400 rpm engine. Just imagine if that engine was a >8000 rpm, itb monster of a 2 liter making 240 hp. They really should do something like that to send off the nd miata, in my opinion.
@@thehumanoid6543 Yeah I guess not having an engine as special as the S2000's will always be the "what if" question for the Miata. If they were ever in a position to bring back Mazdaspeed, we'd love to see it.
@@drive A 2.4L would help
Like the 86/brz
@@drive oh yeah and I sure do hope that the mazdapeed isn't a turbo like the last one because the turbo ruined it. When in canada, I drove a friends nb mazdaspeed and it was horrible. Sounded muted, had loads of lag and too much torque but it kind of puffed out at 5000 rpm because it was a fairly small turbo. Given how aligned to the na the nd is, i do believe this mazdaspeed should def be a higher compression, higher redline, itb 8k screamer instead of a muted turbocharged disappointment.
Great camera angle!!! I thoroughly enjoyed watching the back of the seats as well as the back of your head for 4 mins!
Thanks for bringing us along🤗
If you keep making these, I will keep watching. Rock on, Spinelli!
Love the commentary; please keep it up!
We miss you Mike! Glad you’re back and making videos!!!
Glad you're back. Thank you /DRIVE
Watching this as I eat on a road trip from LA to Texas with my new Miata GT. Great road trip car if you find the right roads.
Cool video. Most TV shows/movies from my childhood made me want to live in CA. Everything from CHIPS to Cheech & Chong. After 36yrs of living in Queens NY and the past 10yrs living in NJ, I'm finally moving to Santa Clarita CA. Can't wait to take my S2K on Angeles Crest Highway.
Thanks for sharing this video!
Thanks for the ride ! Great vid of a great car ! 👌
Great video, perfect length
3:58 - My boneless limb is pretty precise...
Short but brilliant review , Rockford files link is a memory gem … thank you … from merry England
Wonderful video of amazing scenery! My Miata is a 2021 GT also, but the RF in Soul Red. I'm in Colorado so I'm waiting on above 40f temps. :p A set of Flyin' Miata sway bars, Cravenspeed's short throw shift kit, and curves. and I'm a happy guy.
I drive an 06 and love it...I will eventually trade it for an MD, but it'll HAVE to be black like this one since the front window framing are all done in black, wish they would of stuck with making them the same color as the car, like they did on the NC models....Beautiful car, I love my NC, ONLY 87,000 on the odometer, she runs like a champ!....and looks like a million bucks in the copper mica red, all stick 06 touring, with the 6-speed automatic transmission with manual mode and paddle-shifters (which I've never used, lol)...saying it's a joy to drive is an understatement.... I've never owned a vehicle that I've loved more than my "MX-5" (06 was the only year it wasn't called a Miata)
Nice video Spin!!!!
Very good review that I like the way it starts before you see the car. That's story telling. Your insight and choice of words is spot on. I think it was too short though and maybe could have included a full look at the car.
Great review!
Like the journal narrative format as different. But would like a bit more about the model you drove. Bilstein's? How did the new engine feel?
Loved the Rockford files....and the miata lol... oh, I have an NA, mariner blue.
Love the video and love my Miata!
I turo'ed a 2016 ND Grand touring last time I visited LA. So much fun!
Great video! I’ve always been a fan of Rockford too. Ok.. So I got my 2021 Miata a couple of weeks ago… Check. I cruised the California coast last Wednesday... Check. Now I need to find that mobile home by the beach… box not checked… yet. But it will be.
Lovely video, that book sounds like my kind of thing. I'm in.
Rockford files! I loved that show when I was a kid.
In the gt you may feel the body movement of the body but in the club/GSP it's very grounded.
Pure poetry Spinelli. Pure poetry.
Kept feeling like I was listening to Ray Liotta narrating a weird miata-centric goodfellas
Great video
We missed you, Spinelli!
"The original Miata was developed on roads similar on this up the coast in Santa Barbara"...oh no kidding? If I'm going north or south on the 101 around SB I always take the 154 in my ND2.
Brilliant!
More of this Spinelli. It takes a level of automative maturity and awareness (being "woke") when it comes to what truly matters in a driver's car, and fully embrace the Miata. Where is this road in Santa Monica? I gotta make sure to break my fasting there too.
5:11 all of those hills are GREEN when it rains once every hundred years
You should've mentioned that the original NA Miata was first designed in Irvine, California.
Nice video 👍👍💪
Mantap 😂
Did you wave to the NA at 2:23
Great eye!
Niiiiice!!!!!
That was amazing way to sell me a car lol I appreciate it bro
Ok, its a miata but who was waiting that cold start at the beginning of this vid?
Exactly what we want from you, Spin. Could you crank out more of these, considering the simple production? :)
Thanks. Yeah. More to come!
Miata it's good car, like a lightline cheese and funny
What about Lotus Elise compare with this?
The Elise is a more hardcore, stripped-down sports car experience. A few hundred pounds lighter, lower, quicker, less-compliant chassis. Great on a track. A ton of fun, but less usable every day than a stock Miata.
@@mikespinnn I am thinking to sell my RX7 FD to buy a Lotus Elise S3 final edition or something more aggressively if I want to work harder to pay for it, an Exige
How to fold a map! ROFL!
the turbo 2.5 with a stick would go along way in bringing back the mazdaspeed mx-5.
Rockfish!!!
This is not Mike Spinelli. Who is this imposter?
James Garner ;)
Anthony Bourdain vibes ❤
I loved it except for the engine sound which didn't match what we were seeing. Pitty.
Thanks. This was kind of an experiment, but next time I'll try to record the sound at the same time as the base video track so at least those shots will be in sync. Truthfully, that level of sound design is outside was I was able to do on this, but I appreciate the kind words.
@@mikespinnn sure, I know it's kind of a stretch. It's just that it's SO good overall, that there isn't too much else one could ask for. And even then... Most of the people maybe didn't even notice. Keep it up! congrats!
*I just 2JZ swapped one*
Horrible camera angle
That isn’t I have a 2021